> My mistake; only java.* works. If you want other jars to be considered > "standard", put them in $JAVA_HOME/jre/lib/ext/. This is a > platform-independent equivalent of what you're proposing.
But not JVM-independent. Bear in mind that we need a solution that works for all JVMs out there, including kaffe, orp, etc. > The equivalent of -nostdinc in Java is 'unset CLASSPATH'. It is not > possible with your proposal. That's half of my complaint; if you do it > in /usr/bin/java, it cannot be overridden. I'd be much happier if it > happened in /etc/profile, where at least it's visible and overridable by > users. Putting things in /etc/profile is dangerous because not everyone uses bash. >From debian policy 10.9: "A program must not depend on environment variables to get reasonable defaults. (That's because these environment variables would have to be set in a system-wide configuration file like /etc/profile, which is not supported by all shells.)" I would argue all classpath manipulation should be done in JVM/compiler startup scripts and Java application startup scripts. Jython is done this way; the jython wrapper adds in the servlet jar and the editline wrapper jar, then the JVM script adds in the bootstrap classes and off we go. Ben.
